From: Tom Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:11:06 -0500
> Doesn't this position force vendors to build deeper adapters, not > shallower adapters? Isn't this exactly the opposite of what is intended? Nope. Look at what the networking developers give a lot of attention and effort to, things like TCP Large Receive Offload, and Van Jacobson net channels, both of which are fully stack integrated receive performance enhancements. They do not bypass netfilter, they do not bypass packet scheduling, and yet they provide a hardware assist performance improvement for receive. This has been stated over and over again. If companies keep designing undesirable hardware that unnecessarily takes features away from the user, that really is not our problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
